...Directly following the Bible; Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the best-selling nonfiction books throughout the world. With over thirty-one million copies sold, the diary has been translated into sixty-seven different languages making Anne Frank a symbol of the six-million Jews killed throughout the Holocaust (Langer). The engaging story of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl contains well-written passages filled with articulate and vivid descriptions of life in the Secret Annex, written by, Anne Frank. While Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl contains few controversial elements; it is an enduring classic that portrays a young girl’s response to her changing life, relationships, mind and body, during the extreme circumstances that constantly surround the world around her. The Diary of a Young Girl begins while following the life of a typical teenage girl, who receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. Like most teenage girls, it seems Anne’s life is solely surrounded with gossip about boys, friends, and school. However, it is in an early entry, where Anne reveals her desire of a true friend to have conversations of value and to be her trusted confident. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, the Franks were forced into hiding. The family moved into a small building above Mr. Frank’s office known as the Secret Annex. For the next two years, the Frank family, the Van Daan family and Mr. Dussel all lived in the Secret Annex while being cut...
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...meant for one of these victims. For my book report, I chose to focus on a life of a young girl named Anne Frank. Anne was a German Jewish girl whose family fled the Nazi Persecution of Jews in Germany in the 1930's, settling in what they hoped was the safety of Amsterdam, Holland. When the Nazis invaded Holland in 1940, the terror returned and the Franks went into hiding in a Secret Annex, hidden rooms at the back of Otto Frank's (father) business premises in Amsterdam. Most books about famous people only tell the reader about what the person was like as a child, to help explain what they were like as a grown up. But Anne’s diary is all about her childhood because she never had a chance to grow up. Very few people become famous as children, but Anne Frank eventually became one of those few. To understand why Anne Frank became famous we must know a little something about her family background. The Frank family settled in the German city of Frankfurt during the seventeenth century. They prospered as the city expanded and grew rich by trade. Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father was born in 1889....
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...publish this amazing book, Anne’s wishes to become in author, and the big role of her father, Otto Frank, and Miep Gies to help to this book had been published. Otto Frank began to consider of having the diary published moved by Anne´s repeated wish to be an author. Miep Gies gave Otto Frank the diary and a bundle of loose notes that she had saved in the hope of returning of Anne. But, in July, 1945, the Red Cross confirmed the death of the Anne Frank. Otto Frank later commented that he had not realized Anne had kept such an accurate and well-written record of their time in hiding. He described the painful process of reading the diary, recognizing the events described and recalling that he had already heard some of the more funny episodes read aloud by his daughter. He saw for the first time the more private side of his daughter, and those sections of the diary she had not discussed with anyone. Otto Frank told to a group of Jewish friends about the diary, and one of them was really touched about it. He asked to Otto if he could lend the diary to the historian Jan Romein to read, a good friend of his. Otto Frank hesitated, but was finally persuaded. Jan Romein was also much impressed by the diary, and he wrote an article about it for the daily newspaper Het Parool. He also asked to Otto Frank to consider having the diary published. His article attracted attention from publishers, and Otto Frank agreed the diary was published in the Netherlands after as Het Achterhuis in 1947, followed...
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...TIMELINE OF IMPORTANT DATES May 12, 1889: Otto Frank (Anne‘s father), is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. April 20, 1889: Adolph Hitler is born in Austria. January 16, 1900: Edith Hollander (Anne’s mother), is born in Aachen, Germany. 1914-1918: Otto Frank serves in German Army during WWI as a lieutenant. Adolph Hitler also serves from 1914-1920, as a Corporal. November 11, 1918: The Armistice which ends World War I is signed. June 23, 1919: Germany accepts the Versailles Treaty. September 12, 1919: Hitler joins the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. January 1923: The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), known as the Nazi Party, holds its first rally in Munich. May 12, 1925: Otto Frank and Edith Hollander are married in Aachen, Germany. July 18, 1925: Mein Kampf, Hitler’s autobiography and anti-Semitic plan, is published. February 16, 1926: The Franks’ first daughter, Margot, is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. June 12, 1929: The Franks’ second daughter, Anneliese Marie or Anne, is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. July 31, 1932: The Nazis receive 37.3 percent of the vote and are asked to form a coalition government. January 30, 1933: Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. February 1933: Freedom of speech and assembly is suspended by the Nazi government. March 1933: The Gestapo, or Secret State Police, is established. Dachau, the main concentration camp for...
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...Weisskopf First In Flight European Influence Joshua Burnell HIST 130 25AUGUST2014 Weisskopf First In Flight The purpose of me informing you about Gustav Albin Weiskopf (Gustave Whitehead), is to pass on information that it wasn’t the Wright Brothers that first achieved powered flight in the United States. He was born 01 January 1874 in a small German community called Leutershausen, Germany. This town is located in a small farming community in the state of Bavaria. He immigrated to the United States in 1894 and when he arrived in Connecticut he designed and built gliders, flying machines and engines between 1897 and 1915. The problem with Weisskopf is that his achievements were never formally recorded like the Wright Brothers were. He has proof that he did achieve powered flight 2 years prior to the Wright Brothers, by eye witness accounts and minor newspaper recordings. He was formally made the first American in the United States to achieve powered flight on 08 March 2013, and the Connecticut state governor on 26 June 2013 signed it into law. He built his first glider on around the turn of 1894-1895, and early in 1901 Weiskopf had built his 21st manned aircraft. Weisskopf was hired by William Pickering, a professor at Harvard University. He was tasked with building the Lilienthal Glider, which of course he was able to easily achieve due to his prior knowledge of American and German Aeronautical terms and experience. He was the first Chief Mechanic for...
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...MAED Capstone EDU 695 Ethel Stanford Instructor Kathleen Lunsford December 6, 2014 MAED Capstone Title | Holocaust Web Quest: Evaluation and Citations | Grade | Level: 7 | Type of Lesson: | Flexible Collaboration Continuum | Area Topic | Moderate Content Area: Language Arts Content Topic: Diary of Anne Frank Unit | Standards for the 21st-Century Learner | | Skills Indicator(s): | 1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, and appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context. | Responsibilities Indicator(s): | 11.3.1 Respect copyright/intellectual property rights of creators and producers. | Dispositions Indicator(s): | 1.2.4 Maintain a critical stance by questioning the validity and accuracy of all information | Self-Assessment Strategies Indicator(s): | 1.4.1 Monitor own information-seeking processes for effectiveness and progress, and adapt as necessary. | Scenario: | In two sessions, this lesson is designed to teach students how to evaluate and cite information gathered from web sites related to the study of the Holocaust. The lesson reinforces the concept that not all resources are reliable and useful and that all sources must be cited to avoid plagiarism. The lesson is part of a language arts unit on The Diary of Anne Frank, and it teaches research standards as they are imbedded in the literature content. The teacher will be responsible...
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...Anne Frank is an inspiration to me in many ways. I decided to choose this topic for many reasons but mainly because id never done anything personally on her. Many know about her life during the holocaust but not many know about her life before. In this essay I will be researching her before life and who she was before this tragic event occurred. For those of you who don’t know who Anne Frank is she was a teen writer who went into hiding during the Holocaust. She journalized her experiences in the what we know as The Diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was born as Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Her Mother and father known as Edith Frank and Otto Frank. Her father was a lieutenant in the German army during World War...
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...In the story, The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank, Anne compares the eight occupants of the “Secret Annex,” to a piece of little blue heaven. I feel that Anne is referring to the black rain clouds around them are the Nazi’s coming closer to finding them. Anne notices the fighting in the streets and how Nazi’s are taking away people every day which worries her more. She starts have nightmares of what might happen, and how she might be taken away from her family. I feel that Anne compares the families to the little blue heaven because she feels safer with them in the annex, and their “...circle which separates us from the approaching danger closes more and more tightly,” (Frank 115) shows how they come closer and closer to being found each day. Anne becomes more and more afraid that they will be caught. Anne goes into a deep state of depression because she feels there is not a living person she can talk to about her problems. She has nightmares of being shipped off away from her family, or of the “Secret Annex” being on fire. Anne tries hard to occupy herself with books and education, but it won’t help her to have her fears go away. I think the “black rain clouds” refer to some people becoming very suspicious of all the noise coming from the annex, and how the Nazi’s are coming closer and closer to figuring out where they are. Anne is very scared and worried for her family as she describes their little safety circle, “Now we are surrounded by danger and darkness that we bump...
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...Diary of Anne Frank: Paper Christopher Bauer On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank’s parents give her a diary. She’s excited because she wants someone, or something, in which to confide all of her secret thoughts. Even though she has a rich social life, she feels misunderstood by everyone she knows. Anne starts writing about daily events, her thoughts, school grades, boys, all that. But, within a month, her entire life changes. As Jews in German-occupied Holland, the Frank family fears for their lives. When Anne’s sister, Margot, is called to appear before the authorities, which would almost surely mean she was being sent to a concentration camp, Anne and her family go into hiding. They move into a little section of Anne's father's office building that is walled off and hidden behind a swinging bookcase. The little diagram of the office building and "Secret Annex" along with the Thursday, July 9, 1942 entry gives us the layout. For two years, the Frank family lives in this Secret Annex. Mr. and Mrs. van Daan and their son Peter (who is a few years older than Anne) are also in hiding with the Franks. Later, Mr. Dussel, an elderly dentist moves in, and Anne has to share her bedroom with him. Anne’s adolescence is spent hidden from the outside world. She’s cooped up in tiny rooms, tiptoeing around during the day and becoming shell-shocked from the sounds of bombs and gunfire at night. Luckily, the Franks have tons of reading material and a radio. Anne grows in her knowledge...
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...Mr. van Daan - The father of the family that hides in the annex along with the Franks and who had worked with Otto Frank in Amsterdam. He shows his talent as an herbal specialist when the family receives a large amount of meat. According to Anne, he is intelligent, opinionated, pragmatic, and somewhat egotistical. Anne considers him to be an insufferable know-it-all, though she reserves the majority of her ire for his wife. Mr. van Daan is temperamental, speaks his mind openly, and is not afraid to cause friction, especially with his wife, with whom he fights frequently and openly. Mrs. van Daan - Mrs. van Daan is one person that Anne can’t stand. She’s belligerent and selfish, always instigates fights, and rarely helpful. She is a fatalist and can be petty, egotistical, flirtatious, stingy, and disagreeable. Mrs. van Daan frequently complains about the family’s situation—criticism that Anne does not admire or respect.Her character does not seem to change over time. She is jealous of Anne’s relationship with her son, wanting Peter to confide in her rather than in Anne. However, Mrs. van Daan does have a few strong points. She occasionally can be reasonable and backs down from fights, is generally neat and tidy, and is often easier for Anne to approach than her own mother. Peter van Daan - Through Anne’s eyes at the beginning of her diary, Peter is lazy and has a weak character. He’s also shy and extremely awkward. But a year and a half after they’ve been in hiding...
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...THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL : THE DEFINITIVE EDITION Anne Frank Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler Translated by Susan Massotty -- : -BOOK FLAP Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructable nature of the human spirit. Restore in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that had been omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about, and tried to copie with, her own emerging sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreement with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable, and more vital than ever. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when the family went into the Secret Annex, and in these pages she grows to be a young woman and a wise observer of human nature as well. With unusual insight, she reveals the relations between eight people living under extraordinary conditions, facing hunger, the ever-present threat of discovery and death, complete...
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...Diary of Anne Frank: Anne By: Urja Shah 3rd “The Diary of Anne Frank” is a play about people living in an annex, during WWII. These Jewish people were living in a rather tiny area. The main character is Anne. Throughout her stay in the annex, she changes (dynamic characterization). At the beginning of the play Anne is loud, immature, and talkative, but towards the end she is quieter. All the occupants of the annex feel that she is talkative and loud, especially MrVanDaan. Mr.VanDan says “every evening it’s the same talk, talk, talk.” Anne had hid Peter’s shoes. Mrs. Frank thought it was not “dignified” for her to do this. As time passes in the annex, Anne grows quieter. Peter recognizes how she has become quieter and even mentions it to Anne. After this change, she does almost nothing to aggravate anyone, like Margot. Anne mainly has positive aspects such as confidence, bravery (towards the end), and thoughtfulness. In the play, Anne says she is going to Paris to study music and art. She is sure that she will go to Paris because of her confident tone. Towards the end, Anne shows bravery. When everybody was about to be captured she remained calm because she knew what lie ahead of them. In the beginning she was much afraid of the green police but that changed (dynamic characterization). During Hanukah, Anne shows how thoughtful she is. She gives everyone gifts that they would enjoy. Despite the bad relationship with her mother she still thoughtfully gives her a gift...
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...Letters From Rifka by Karen Hesse is about a Jewish girl named Rifka, who knows nothing about America when she flees from Russia in 1919. In her own imagination, she will be at last safe from the Russian soldiers and their harsh treatment of the Jews in the new country. However, Rifka caught ring worm when their family were transferring from Poland to America. Therefore, she was told to stay in Europe until she was totally cured. After dealing the disease, Rifka was finally allowed to continue her journey. “Why is it, that in Russia, no matter what the trouble, the blame always falls upon the Jews?” Rifka wrote in her diary. As the novel progresses, Rifka learns that when there is a will, there’s a way. At the beginning of the novel, Rifka’s parents decide to move their family from Russia because they were being persecuted along with all Jewish citizens. At that time it was difficult to get papers permitting Jewish people to leave the country. Rifka writes, “I’ve never been to another country before, not even in another village.” Rifka knows nothing about the world outside her village. Unfortunately, a complicating factor was that Rifka’s brother was being hunted by soldiers because he escaped from the army. As a result, in order for Rifka and her family to depart on their trip to America, she has to distract the men searching the train for Nathan and stood in front of them. They began to question her. How ever, there were only a few minutes before the train was due to depart...
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...The Diary of A Young Girl is a book about Anne Frank, a thirteen year old girl who is forced to go into hiding with her family. They hide in a small secret annex above Otto Frank’s (her father) office where they had food and supplies in stock. She names her diary Kitty, and writes in it for almost two years. Some news from the radio makes it into her diary, her friendship with Peter van Daan – a teenage boy also in hiding with Anne- as well as her feelings about living In the annex with her family, another family known as the van Daan’s as well as a companion, Mr.Dussel. Anne begins her diary by saying that she wants to confide in the journal like no other. She has never been able to confide in someone like she wants to in this diary that she received for her thirteenth birthday. She starts writing on Sunday June 14th, 1942. In the first section of the diary, she writes about her childhood- her family moved to Holland because her father found a job with a Dutch company. She also has a German background, but is Jewish. She attended a Jewish Lyceum there. She introduces her friends, and all the fun activities she does with them like getting ice cream, going on ferries, and gets treats from secret admirers. She explains how she has some family still in Germany, some who fled to North America, and how her grandmother came with her family to Holland. Anne reveals that the Germans are making all the Jews wear big yellow starts on their shirts so they are easily pointed out. In...
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...Anne Frank began writing in her diary on June 12, 1942. She received her diary as a birthday present from her father. She writes in her diary for two years, during the hiding from the Nazi’s. Anne lived with 7 other people in the attic of her Father’s, Otto “Pim” Frank, former business. She expresses to us her feelings, thoughts, and her day-to-day routine. As Anne continued to write in her diary, we ascertain that Anne changes and become more mature. Anne also falls in love with Peter van Daan. She talks about their relationship and describes their conversations. In the beginning, Anne was immature and innocent. She was moody and sometimes too opinionated. She tends to annoy most of the people in the secret annex. Anne and her mother’s...
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